Hi David,
>> accel, rit, a tempo, etc in a close
>> sequence, but obviously tied to their start times, and all at the same
>> vertical offset. For individual, more time-compressed, parts (e.g. the
>> woodwind parts that start out with rests!), I need to explicitly avoid
>> the instructions getting partly on top of each other.
>
> Doesn't \tempo work?
Not out of the box, and not without a pretty good knowledge of Lilypond
tweaking:
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
\version "2.19"
\language "english"
pileup = {
\tempo "Start here" c''4
\tempo "accel." c''
\tempo "rit." c''
\tempo "a tempo" c'’
}
\score { \pileup }
%%% SNIPPET ENDS
Even if the user knows how to force sufficient horizontal spacing, there’s
still the problem they won’t [with different notes] necessarily be “at the same
vertical offset” as the OP wants.
And even if the user knows how to force the correct padding, there’s the
problem that Urs — a very experienced Lilypond user — ran into just yesterday:
"a tempo” (with a descender) will not be at the same vertical position as the
other markings (which have no descenders), because Lily doesn’t baseline-align
markups.
So, the simple answer to your question is: \tempo may not work for the OP.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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